HICSS 2025 - Designing Data Ecosystems: Values, Impacts, and Fundamentals
Data – recognized as the new oil – are increasingly becoming a critical resource for business success. Companies must ensure leveraging data to optimize internal business processes and create new business opportunities. That applies to traditional incumbents and digital natives alike. The former must ensure to stay competitive and avoid losing touch with the changing market, for example, by using data from physical assets (e.g., machines) to offer new digital services. The latter can leverage the green-field advantage and generate completely novel solutions from scratch, such as establishing data ecosystems that enable different actors (e.g., public institutions, companies, and academia) to share data for reciprocal benefit. With this comes a set of challenges. For example, unlike physical assets, data are reproducible at almost zero marginal cost and technical effort.
The track focuses on exploring the fundamentals of data ecosystems from multiple perspectives, including studies that discover the meaning of data sharing in ecosystems for its stakeholders (e.g., data producers, providers, or consumers) or the classification of ecosystems. We expect contributions examining issues relating to the business value of data ecosystems within different domains (e.g., mobility, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics) and the use of various underpinning technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence or blockchain). Complementarily, we invite contributions exploring data sharing as well as the associated rules and governance mechanisms. Lastly, we like to encourage submission tackling socially relevant challenges by means of data ecosystems, such as sustainability (17 Sustainable Development Goals), security, and privacy.
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